First United Methodist Church to Host Organizer Katy Hickman for Talk on Voters of Color

Pasadena’s First United Methodist Church will host Los Angeles organizer Katy Hickman for a discussion on empowering and protecting voters of color, according to an announcement from the church. The church’s Church and Society group has scheduled the talk for Sunday, July 26, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. in the Church Lounge.

Hickman is described in the announcement as a Los Angeles–based organizer and volunteer working in electoral empowerment, immigrant rights, and climate legislation. The church says she serves as a regional organizer for the Reclaim Our Vote campaign of the Center for Common Ground, which the announcement characterizes as a Black-woman-led voting rights organization. In that role, according to the church, she helps mobilize voters of color in states the campaign identifies as having prevalent voter-suppression tactics.

The Center for Common Ground, founded in 2018, describes itself as a nonpartisan, Black- and women-led voting rights organization. According to the organization, it runs Reclaim Our Vote — a grassroots, largely volunteer campaign to increase turnout among voters of color — through postcarding, texting, and phone banking, and concentrates its work in states it identifies as having histories of voter suppression, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. The organization says it also operates year-round community “Democracy Centers” and a paid college internship program focused on voting rights.

The announcement notes that Hickman has worked as a playwright, actor, and public school teacher. Her stage work includes the play “Bright Boy: The Passion of Robert McNamara,” which premiered in Los Angeles in 2006, and “Meteor Girl,” which was recognized with Dramalogue and Bay Area Critics Circle honors.

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